All Films

Three Drops of Mezcal in a Glass of Champagne

1983 • 16 min • France

An autobiographical black-and-white short in which Teo Hernández portrays his Purépecha father by holding backlit old photographs atop the Montparnasse Tower while reading a manifesto of sorts on his filmmaking.

Het Gerucht: Rosas danst Rosas

1983 • 27 min

A short documentary about the creation process of Rosas danst Rosas, the performance that forced Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s international breakthrough and has become a benchmark in the history of postmodern dance. This documentary, directed by Stefaan Decostere for the BRT cultural programme Het Gerucht [The Rumour, ed.], uses fragments of rehearsals and interviews with De Keersmaeker and composer Thierry De Mey, offering a glimpse of the choreographic creative process in which repeated abstract movements play a key role.

You Are Free

1983 • 20 min

Five former U.S. Servicemen and a prison camp survivor give accounts of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in 1945.

A Generation Apart

1983 • 56 min

A one-hour documentary that explores the impact of the Holocaust on the families of survivors.

The Great Sadness of Zohara

1983 • 39 min • Israel, Morocco

A young, orthodox Jewish woman is alienated from her Jerusalem community and drawn into the world of spirit.

Nappy-Headed Lady

1983 • 16 min

A work-in-progress about middle class African American parents discussing why they have ordered their daughter to get rid of her afro.

Copyright by Luther

1983 • 17 min • Germany

A short animation film on Martin Luther and the origins of the Reformation, one told with wry humor and paper cut-outs.

U2- US Festival

1983 • 60 min • United Kingdom

U2 30 May 1983 Glen Helen Regional Park Devore War In The U.S.A. 1983 Tour Setlist: 01. Gloria 02. I Threw A Brick Through A Window 03. A Day Without Me 04. An Cat Dubh 05. Into The Heart 06. New Year's Day 07. Surrender 08. Two Hearts Beat As One 09. Sunday Bloody Sunday 10. The Electric Co. 11. I Will Follow 12. "40"

Big Brother

1983 • 7 min • United States of America

BIG BROTHER (1983) is a comic book/collage film. The images are taken from commercials and other commercially released films as well as my own shooting. Sections of frames were cut out and then placed into Super 8 film frames which had been painted upon, a mouth here, a leg there. This film can also be read like a comic strip on the rewinds. The film was blown up to 16mm. Ironically my hope had been to keep the film in Super 8 as a discourse on gauge chauvinism, one of the implications in the title.

Five Year Diary, Reel 26: First Semester Graduate School (February 28–May 20, 1983)

1983 • 27 min • United States of America

Two years into the Diary, Anne began graduate school at Massachusetts College of Art. Reel 26 was shot silently; the soundtrack is an audio recording she made during a graduate review. She discusses her work with Super 8 auteur and professor Saul Levine and a second faculty member. Ideas brought up in the discussion were later implemented in Reel 22 and 23 and in the presentation of the work in general. (Liz Coffey)

On Our Land

1983 • 55 min • United Kingdom

After the creation of Israel in 1948, Palestinians who chose to remain on their land were banded into farming communities. Most of this land has since been lost to Israeli kibbutz and moshav settlements. The Palestinians, who number one in six Israeli citizens, now must commute to work in Israeli cities, or farm land that is no longer theirs. They also must contend with discriminatory practices in housing, employment, and education, even though they are Israeli citizens. Centering on Umm el-Fahm, the largest Arab village in Israel, ON OUR LAND tells the story of an ill treated segment of Israel's population which has largely been ignored.

Sea, Oh Sea!

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The story of young men and women on vacation. They are constantly separated by various circumstances, including the fantastic and phantasmagoric ones, but at the end, they finally marry. Oh, more, more! parodies Soviet popular culture, i.e. popular music (Italian song "Amore-more-more..."), sugary wedding photos and souvenirs, the maniacal hunt for foreign brands and clothes (such as jeans), primitive Soviet pornography, and the cult of material prosperity.

Climax

1983 • 10 min • France

The paths of eight characters brush against one another, collide, avoid one another, attract one another or clash in the texture of a Super 8 ballet film. Climax attemps to transalte the sensation of a nightmare which, by nature evades reality, fiction and even memory to engrave syncopated, brief, distorded, repetitive and obsessive pictures in our brains. These pictures are those of a murder fantasy.

Across the Interior of Iceland

1983 • 24 min • Iceland

The film is about travelling on horseback across the Icelandic interior on the main route, which once connected the north of Iceland with the shout. This route was the scene of a tragic accident in the 18th century, when young farmers moving a flock of sheep to the North, perished in a snowstorm. For many years following the incident the track was not used, until the 19th century, when Captain Daniel Bruun from Denmark, accompanied by a photographer and a water-colour artist, crossed the difficult terrain, deep rivers, and rocky heights in sun, rain, fog and wind, marking the way with stones laboriously heaped into cairns.

¿Y después qué?

1983 • 19 min • Peru

A critical account is given of the two stages of the military government of the seventies: Between General Velasco Alvarado and General Morales Bermudez. Based on photographic, graphic, journalistic, radio and audiovisual records

Mercur: The Town that Can't Stay Dead

1983 • 28 min

A documentary about the town of Mercur, Utah, and its history of mining.

Our Little Paradise

1983 • 9 min • Uruguay

A man lives life intensely through his television set, turning his back on reality.

Anonymous Letter

1983 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The city of the beginning of the century with recognizable features of Saratov is immersed in summer heat and desolation. A young hunchback receives a letter from a stranger with an explanation of love and a request for a meeting. Having come on a date and seeing a hunchback in front of him, he leaves...

Rola

1983 • 5 min • Poland

a Leszek Komorowski Cartoon

80s Pilsen Backyard Circus

1983 • 5 min

Silent footage of an amateur circus performance in a backyard in the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen in the 1980s.

Patagonie Force 10

1983 • 52 min • France

A team of 12 men, 5 sailors, a doctor, a writer, a film crew, and 3 mountaineers, Jean-Marc Boivin, Thierry Leroy, and Dominique Marchal, set off by sailboat from Mar del Plata in Argentina to reach Riso Patron in Chile, via the Strait of Magellan, the Patagonian Channels, and Falcon Fjord. Their goal is to climb Riso Patron and then make the first crossing of the Campo de Hielo Sur glacier, or Hielo Continental Patagónico, to meet up with the sailors in Puerto Williams on Navarino Island in Chile, a village at the end of the world. After three attempts and an accident for Leroy, who was repatriated, they gave up, crossed the glacier and rejoined the boat, to set off for Cape Horn to climb the South face, knowing that the weather was good one day a month... On January 20, 1983, Jean-Marc Boivin and Dominique Marchal succeeded in making the first ascent of the South face of Cape Horn.

With a Smile

1983 • 10 min • Czechoslovakia

An old circus clown has an unpleasant problem-even when he washes off his clown makeup, he still has a big red smile.

Augusta Makes Herself Beautiful

1983 • 5 min • Hungary

Augusta tries everything in order to make herself look beautiful.

Les Chemins de Ma Maison (TV Special)

1983 • 40 min

For the release of the album "Les chemins de ma maison”, the Canadian TV is broadcasting a special documentary on his young career. She is also undertaking her first career tour and a first biography is dedicated to her.